Eastern Washington University's track team has finalized its schedule for the 2022-23 season as announced today (Dec. 2) by head track and field coach Erin Tucker. This will begin Tucker's first season leading the Eagles after arriving at Eastern in August.

"There are so many moving parts when planning a track and field schedule each year. You must think about your elite athletes, the rising elites, and development athletes the entire time and try to balance a schedule to accommodate all three groups," Tucker said. "Hats off to the entire staff for putting together this amazing schedule that will help usher in a new era of track and field at Eastern Washington University. We will continue to fight to make our families, friends, alumni, and fans proud of us. Go Eags!"

EWU will start the season with a meet in 2022 and continue with 19 competitions lined up ahead for 2023.

Indoor Season
The Eagles will kick off the season with their first meet on Dec. 10 at the Spokane Invite in Spokane, Wash., with the times to be announced.

Eastern's next competition will be on Jan. 13 through Jan. 14 at the Spokane Indoor Challenge in Spokane, Wash.

Eight days later EWU will travel to Moscow, Idaho, for the Lauren McClusky Memorial on Jan. 21.

On Jan. 28, the Eagles' will compete at the Inland Northwest Invitational hosted by Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash.

The following week will be the Washington State Open on Feb. 2 through Feb. 4 in Spokane, Wash.

Right before the indoor championships, Eastern will split groups for the Washington State meet in Seattle, Wash., the New Mexico meet in Albuquerque, N.M., and for the Whitworth Podium Meet in Spokane, Wash. These three events will be held on Feb. 10 through Feb. 11.

The Eagles will then participate in the Big Sky Indoor Championships in Moscow, Idaho on Feb. 23 through Feb. 24.

After the championships is the chance for Eastern to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 10 through March 11.

Outdoor Season

Opening the outdoor track and field season, Eastern Washington University will compete at the Sam Adams Invite hosted by Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., on March 17 through March 18.

The next meet will be the Al Manuel Invitational hosted by Montana University in Missoula, Mont., on March 25.

EWU will then travel to Eugene, Ore., for the Hayward Premier hosted by the University of Oregon on March 31 through April 1.

Six days later, Eastern will return to Spokane, Wash., for the Whitworth Second Annual Peace Meet on April 7 through April 8.

The Eagles will then travel to Long Beach, Calif., on April 14 through the 15th for the Long Beach State/Bryan Clay Invitational.

Eastern will compete at the Central Washington meet on April 21 through April 22 in Ellensburg, Wash.

Right before the outdoor championships, EWU will split squads to compete against Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore. and Arizona in Tuscon, Ariz. Both competitions will take place on April 28 through April 29.  

The team's first postseason opportunity will be the Big Sky Outdoor Championships on May 10 through May 13 in Greeley, Colo.

Afterwards, Eastern will get the chance to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor First Round in Sacramento, Calif., on May 24 through May 27. The NCAA Outdoor Championships finals will be held June 7 through June 10 in Austin, Texas.

EWU's track and field team comes back this new season with 24 newcomers, 14 women and ten men.  Among the key returners included Alex Bishop (High Jump) and Bobby Say (Triple Jump) who both qualified for the NCAA West Regionals in May of 2022.